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Maybe I'm missing something here, but won't this (using Ghost) cause problems for installing to machines with different hardware? Maybe everyone else works in an environment that can afford to upgrade every machine at once.

[GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\install\apps.cmd %systemdrive%\install\cleanup.cmd

Try this instead: copy %systemdrive%\install\readme.txt "%userprofile%\Desktop" %userprofile% (in general) expands to "Documents and Settings", and the shell interprets this as 3 different arguments because of the spaces. Putting quotes around arguments with spaces in them usually fixes this sort of problem.

The key you're looking for is "HKCU\Identities\{your-identity-number}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0\Rules" You can adapt this method to determine your identity.

Everything in your $OEM$\$1 folder does get copied to %SYSTEMDRIVE%. You can create "$OEM$\$1\Program Files\Miranda IM", "$OEM\$1\Program Files\Thunderbird" and "$OEM$\$1\Program Files\Firebird" in your distribution folder with your files/folders already included and can remove the copying in your installs.cmd. You can also use '$OEM$\$$' folder for files and folders which go in to your %SYSTEMROOT% directory.

Here's a little script I use to find what my user's identity is and to apply HKCU\Identities\{Identity} tweaks to: @ECHO OFF ECHO Configuring Outlook Express... for /f "Tokens=5" %%i in ('REG QUERY HKCU\Identities /v "Default User ID"^|find "Default"') do set default_identity=%%i REG ADD "HKCU\Identities\%default_identity%\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0" /v "Launch Inbox" /t REG_DWORD /d 00000001 /f REG ADD "HKCU\Identities\%default_identity%\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0" /v "Show Contacts" /t REG_DWORD /d 00000000 /f I couldn't figure out how to use the IEAK to suit my purposes (basically add a few default HKCU settings for Outlook Express) and have found this method works just fine.